Clarkson Crolius (bapt. October 30, 1774 – October 3, 1843) was an American businessman and politician.

Life

Born in

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, Clarkson Crolius was the son of Johannes (John) Crolius and Maria Clarkson Crolius. His grandfather Johan Willem (William) Crolius, a manufacturer of stoneware, is said to have come from Germany to New York, and ran a pottery on Reade Street, near

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. William's son John Crolius acquired property on Reade Street, about west of

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, where the pottery and the family residence were maintained for many years, until Clarkson Crolius removed the works to No. 65 and 67 Bayard Street, the home still remaining in Reade Street. In 1811, as Grand Sachem of the

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, he laid the foundation stone of the old Tammany Hall in Frankfort Street. At the beginning of the

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, he was a major in the Twenty-seventh Regiment of the State Militia, but resigned his commission and received an appointment to the same rank in the regular service. He finished the war as a colonel. He was an alderman of New York City for many years. He was a member from

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of the New York State Assembly in 1806, 1807, from 1816 to 1822, in 1824 and 1825, and was

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in 1825. In 1830, he was one of the incorporators of the Canajoharie and Catskill Railroad. In 1831, he was the leader of the National Republican Party in New York City. He married Elizabeth Meyer (c. 1774–1856). Their son, State Senator Clarkson Crolius (born 1801), discontinued the manufacture of stoneware in Bayard Street in 1845, and the pottery was afterwards demolished. He died at his home in New York City on October 3, 1843.

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compiled by Franklin B. Hough (Weed, Parsons & Co., Albany NY, 1858) {{DEFAULTSORT:Crolius, Clarkson 1774 births 1843 deaths American people of German descent American colonial people People of the Province of New York Members of the New York State Assembly Speakers of the New York State Assembly 19th-century American railroad executives